MO usually means it was a Ministry Of Defense rifle, is it double dated?

ThanksMark

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Well after looking for the date stamp...the MO mark seems to be missing ? I was also looking at a m44 when I bought this gun and one of them was stamped MO... must have been the m44... is a gun with the MO stamp good?Lee

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Hi Lee:OK first off the MO stamping stands for "Ministerstvo Oborony", The Defense Ministry was established on March 15th, 1953, This was the result of a merger of the Military and Naval Ministries. The markings are found on M91/30, M38, M44, and M91/59 Mosin Nagants. Are they worth more? to some. The fact that it is a M38 makes it worth more off the bat. The Mosin carbines are very collectable at the moment. The M59 is another awesome rifle. They were for a while the best kept secret in the Mosin Nagant community. Once word got out about them however they were snapped up by collectors just like the M38's. I don't believe I've ever seen a M38 MO stamped rifle. I had my eye on a triple stamped MO M91/30 at Cabella's in Idaho, but they would not sell it to me because I was a CA resident.

SeeyaMark

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yep that's perfect, 1953 would have been the first year. Nice find there buddy..seeyaMark

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I recall reading something about the double date matter, to effect that it hasn't been firmly established that the second date is necessarily always the date the rifle was transferred to the MO. It does sort of seem to apply to the one I have. There are also "triple date" MO's floating around.

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